Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Leeedit.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Nov 2013 at 23:09:12 (UTC)

Confederate General Robert E. Lee

Reason: Compared even with other Civil War era photographs, this image appears to have a number of issues both in terms of brightness and in focus. There are several other images of Lee around, and I have to think that if a restorer of Adam Cuerden's caliber were to work on one, we'd be able to turn this from a delist to a delist and replace
Articles this image appears in: Robert E. Lee, Military of the Confederate States of America, List of United States Military Academy alumni, and Confederate States of America
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Robert_E._Lee
Nominator: Sven Manguard Wha?

Delist — Sven Manguard Wha? 23:09, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Wow, I'm so used to looking at great candidates it's rather shocking to see one of such low resolution! Mattximus (talk) 00:51, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- This was promoted in 2007. A lot of Featured content was promoted in 2007 (pictures, articles, portals) and very little of it holds up to modern standards. Six years can do that. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:01, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well in that case, you should place their delist nom too. Also Delist for this image. Herald talk with me 14:10, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist '''Johncy''' (talk) 14:21, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Question This image is obviously created from a very old photograph. Is the low resolution of this image due to the inherent low resolution of the source material? If so, and this is the best quality of this image (and subject) that will ever be available, then I don't think it should necessarily be delisted. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:14, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The low resolution is due to the scan of the image not the source material itself. Mattximus (talk) 21:18, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This image isn't just a little bit off, it's bad. It was either bad when it was taken, bad when it was developed, or did not age well before being digitized, but the issues are too severe for the "but this is really old" clause. There are plenty of civil-war era images that are fundamentally sound, to which that clause can be considered. This isn't one of them. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delist I generally detest the delist because it's old nominations but this was bad quality back in 2007 and there are many better pictures in the article that are both of high quality and better represent the subject so this should be a no brainer. Cat-five t c ---- 02:47, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist definitely -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 20:34, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:32, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]